MECHANISMS OF POWER AND MANIPULATION IN THE LANGUAGE: SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF AN INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE FROM FRENCH FILM ENTRE LES MURS

Abstract

The main purpose of this text is to analyze the manipulation processes that shape power relations in the classroom in the French film Entre les murs in order to identify how they make up the institutional discourse. For this purpose, it is used the discursive semiotics of Greimas and Courtes (1990), Fontanille (1998), Arevalo (2010) and the theory of Candela (2001) and Jackson (1992) regarding power relations as a theoretical and methodological basis. Thus, this interpretative exercise inquiries about the manipulative strategies that influence the dynamics of social structures presented in the educational institution through discourse, reflecting on educational practices and the need for their restructuring, as well as the usefulness of semiotics to recognize them.